Got a Chopin box-set, Chopin - The Chopin Experience; Vladimir Ashkenazy. The recordings I have of Pollini (preludes) and especially !Rubinstein! (nocturnes, trois nouvelles etude, and scherzos) are markedly better from what i've heard of this set so far... but I've never heard a lot of these pieces in the set, it really is great. One thing that annoys me though, on some of the recordings, which took place in different venues at different times, there is quite an audible low hiss noise which is very noticable, especially on the Ballades.

Anyway, i am currently listening to and enjoying Etudes, Op. 10.

Does anybody else have Ashkenazy playing Chopin? How do you find it to be? I have some work of his on Beethoven's Violin Sonatas that are just great, not sure how i feel yet about this collection yet as I am hearing most of these pieces for the first time.